Before we really get into things, let me clue you into something. I am not a graphic designer. I have no urge to be and have no talent to be. To put it bluntly, my graphics suck. Also, to use what you learn in this tutorial, you will need PHP 4.0.6 or higher and at least GD 2.0.1
First of all I tried to use Server Side Maps, but I found that they need a Perl script with too many lines of code. So I came to phpbuilder and found an article from Rasmus Lerdorf : Creating Dynamic Images with PHP that shows how useful PHP and the GD library could be for that purpose. Thanx Rasmus!
This tutorial will tell you how to write text to a blank dynamically generated PNG image in PHP. This is fairly simple, so it will just be the first step in a series of tutorials dealing with images in PHP. The image functions require the GD library to be installed.
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